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Also known as new curses, libncurses

ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.

Key facts

Software.name
ncurses
Software.screenshot
Linux-menuconfig.png
Software.caption
ncurses-based menuconfig
Software.developer
Thomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al.
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
POSIX
Software.genre
Widget toolkit
Software.license
X11

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